New laptop - hard drive activity on boot up...

[Shadowhouse]

Hi all

I have a new Fujitsu-Siemens laptop which I'm very happy with. On boot-up, sometimes the hard drive engages in activity which lasts for ten minutes or more. Sometimes this also happens at odd intervals after boot up. I had no notification about Vista updates so was curious what was happening...

I ran Task Manager and clicked Resource Monitor, and under the 'disk' tab it returned 100% highest activity time, and I watched a 'Write (B/min)' column entry rise upwards and upwards, eventually getting to some 100,000,000 before I went off to do something else.

It appeared the culprit was:

C:\System Volume Information\{loads of numbers}{loads of other numbers}

so my query is what on earth is it doing? Is this essential and can it be turned off? Apart from hogging the hard drive for minutes on end it's also annoying.

Many thanks in advance :-)

[BertImmenschuh]

System Volume Information is a Folder on the HDD that contains files necessary for System Restore.

Also don't forget that your AntiVirus program may be scanning in the background.

[Shadowhouse]

Thanks for that :-)

It's definately not the anti-virus but system volume information. I'll leave it alone to do its thing, as it only appears to be active about once a week now. Maybe it was because the laptop was new it seemed to kick in on every boot up, presumably following updates and installs etc.

Thanks for the information.

Kind regards - John